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 Christmas Special 2007 - Voyage of the Damned
"Voyage of the Damned" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is 72 minutes long and was broadcasted on 25 December 2007, being the third Christmas special since the show's 2005 revival. The episode introduces a new variation on the opening and closing Doctor Who theme tune, and is the first and only appearance of Australian singer and actor Kylie Minogue as companion Astrid Peth.
This story continues from the final scene of "Last of the Time Lords", in which a luxury space cruiser called the Titanic breaches the walls of the TARDIS console room. The Doctor teams up with waitress Astrid Peth in order to fend off a new enemy called the Host.
On its original airdate, "Voyage of the Damned" was watched by 13.31 million viewers, the highest viewing figures for Doctor Who since the 1979 serial City of Death. It was the second most-watched programme of 2007, beaten only by the immediately following episode of EastEnders.
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Partners in Crime
"Partners in Crime" is the first episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 April 2008 at 6:20 p.m. The episode reintroduced comedienne Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, who previously appeared in "The Runaway Bride". Donna and the Doctor (David Tennant) meet while separately investigating Adipose Industries, a company that has created a revolutionary diet pill. Together, they attempt to stop the death of thousands of people in London after the head of the company, the alien Miss Foster (Sarah Lancashire), creates the Adipose, short white aliens made from human body fat.
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The Fires of Pompeii
The episode takes place during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. In the episode, the Doctor is faced with a moral dilemma: whether to recuse from the situation or to save the population of Pompeii. The Doctor's activities in Pompeii are impeded by the rock-like Pyrovile, and their allies, the Sybilline Sisterhood, who are using the volcano to convert the humans to Pyroviles.
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Planet of the Ood
The Doctor (David Tennant) uses the TARDIS to land at a random point in time and space. On leaving the TARDIS, he and his companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) find a dying Ood, a species the Doctor previously encountered in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". Before dying, the Ood's eyes turn red and it attacks the Doctor. The Doctor muses that the last time he met them, they were being influenced by the Devil, so their docility is being influenced by a different and closer being. The Doctor and Donna find an industrial complex controlled by Ood Operations, who are selling the Ood as a servant race. The Doctor locates their position: the Ood-Sphere in the 42nd century.
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The Sontaran Stratagem (Part 1)
Having covertly established a base at the mysterious ATMOS Factory aided by the Rattigan Academy, the Sontarans unleash a potent terror which brings the world to its knees.
Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to present-day Earth, but with the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that even her own family is not safe from the alien threat.
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The Poison Sky
Following from the previous episode, Sylvia Noble (Jacqueline King) manages to free Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins) from the car by smashing the window with an axe. The Doctor (David Tennant) sends Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) back to the TARDIS while he sets off to figure out what the Sontarans are up to. After studying the gas, UNIT determines that it will need to reach 80% density to become lethal. Elsewhere, Martha Jones's clone (Freema Agyeman) helps the Sontarans to seize the TARDIS. Realising that he is trapped, the Doctor attempts to goad General Staal (Christopher Ryan) into revealing their plan: Staal is smart enough not to fall prey to this ploy, but the Doctor does trick him into moving the TARDIS out of the main war room, placing Donna in a position to help.
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The Doctor's Daughter
Following on from the end of "The Poison Sky", the TARDIS takes the Doctor (David Tennant) and his companions Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) to the planet Messaline in the midst of a generations-long war between humans and the Hath, fish-like humanoids. Upon leaving the TARDIS, armed men working for General Cobb (Nigel Terry) stick the Doctor's hand in a progenation machine, which uses his DNA to create an adult soldier within moments — Jenny (Georgia Moffett), the episode's titular character. Martha is subsequently captured by the Hath, whereas the Doctor, Donna, and Jenny are imprisoned by the humans because of the Doctor's pacifist attitude. Each of the primary characters learns about the war from its belligerents; the Hath and humans were initially meant to live on a peaceful colony, but were divided over a dispute about "the Source", believed by each side to be the breath of their creator. When the Doctor unwittingly reveals
the location of the Source, the two sides race to claim it first. Note: Georgia Moffett, who plays Jenny, is the real-life daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison. David Tennant described the episode by saying "We get to see the Doctor's daughter, played by the Doctor's daughter.
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The Unicorn and the Wasp
The Doctor and Donna arrive at a dinner party hosted by Lady Eddison and her husband, Colonel Hugh. One of the guests is none other than Agatha Christie. Looking at a newspaper, the Doctor finds that it is December 8, 1926, the day of Agatha Christie's disappearance. Just as this revelation is made, another guest, Professor Peach, is found by Eddison's friend and companion Miss Chandrakala in the library, murdered with a lead pipe; Donna alludes to the similarity to Cluedo. The Doctor finds morphic residue on the floor while examining the scene, meaning that one of the guests isn't human.
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Silence in the Library
The Doctor and Donna arrive in the 51st century at a planet-sized book repository simply called "The Library", summoned by an anonymous request for help on the Doctor's psychic paper. However, they find it completely devoid of humanoid life, though the Library's computers claim over "a million million lifeforms" exist. A Node, an information drone which presents a donated human face to the user to facilitate communication, warns them to count the shadows, which appear despite the lack of objects to cast them. As they try to search for answers, they meet a team of explorers, led by archaeologist Professor River Song, who have come to ascertain the meaning of the Library's final communication, which states "4022 saved, 0 survivors". River Song seems to know the Doctor, has a diary with a cover matching the Doctor's TARDIS, and even possesses a sonic screwdriver. She will only admit that she will know him in his relative future, refusing to admit more for fear of "spoilers".
Professor Song recognises Donna's name, as well, but avoids explaining why Donna was not present when she knew the Doctor.
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Forest of the Dead
Following from "Silence in the Library", the Doctor and the exploration team manage to escape the Vashta Nerada and take refuge in a well-lit room. As they work out a plan, the Doctor is concerned about how he can trust River Song, so she whispers a single word in his ear which convinces him: his real name. Meanwhile, Donna finds herself at a hospital, where a Dr. Moon is treating her. He introduces her to another man, Lee, and is later seen visiting the married Donna and her family. However, Donna keeps noticing that something is wrong: she seems to skip from one place to another at a whim, only to be reminded of the journey by Dr. Moon.
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Midnight
The Doctor and Donna spend some leisure time on the crystalline planet Midnight, which orbits close enough to its sun that the Xtonic radiation exposure would vaporise any living thing to walk unprotected on its surface. Donna opts to relax at a spa while the Doctor takes a four-hour shuttle bus ride to the Sapphire Waterfall. Other passengers include the Cane family, Val and her husband Biff and their teenage son Jethro, Professor Hobbes, who is investigating the waterfall and his assistant Dee Dee Blasco, and a businesswoman, Sky Silvestry. The staff are the driver Joe, trainee mechanic Claude and a steward who is only referred to as 'The Hostess'.
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Turn Left
While enjoying time on the planet of Shan Shen, which has an ethnic Chinese culture, Donna Noble is offered a free fortune reading. The fortune-teller presses Donna to reveal her past and focuses on a point in her past on modern-day Earth where she was driving to her temporary job at H. C. Clements, despite her mother's wishes to take up a permanent job nearby. As a large beetle climbs onto Donna's back, the teller convinces Donna to change her mind in the past, taking a right at the intersection per her mother's wishes instead of a left.
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The Stolen Earth
The Doctor and Donna Noble arrive on Earth in the TARDIS immediately following the events of "Turn Left". They re-enter the TARDIS after finding nothing wrong, to search for any possible threats to the universe. Moments later the Earth, along with twenty-six other planets, is teleported to an unknown location. The Doctor turns to the Shadow Proclamation, a universal police force manned by Judoon, for help. Together, they determine that the missing planets, when placed in the same region of space, optimise their orbits like cogs in a giant machine for some unknown purpose. While searching for warning signs that could have preceded the teleport, Donna mentions the disappearance of the bees; the Doctor explains that some bees are actually aliens, and must have fled the Earth after detecting a transmat signal on the tandoka frequencies they use to communicate. This leads them to the edge of the Medusa Cascade, a rift in time and space near a gas nebula.
However, it is empty, and without further information the path to Earth is hidden from them.
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Journey's End
Continuing from the end of "The Stolen Earth", the Doctor (David Tennant) is regenerating inside the TARDIS. Once his body is healed, he halts the transformation by transferring the remaining energy into his severed hand. The TARDIS is captured by the Daleks and transported to the Crucible, the Daleks' flagship. Powerless, the Doctor and his previous companions Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) leave the TARDIS, but Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is accidentally locked in...
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